Dot Net Mafia

Group site for developer blogs dealing with (usually) .NET, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2010, Office 365, SharePoint Online, and other Microsoft products, as well as some discussion of general programming related concepts.

Logic apps are a great new feature in Microsoft Azure that lets you connect to a variety of systems and create triggers and events. This allows you to reproduce some interesting light workflow functionality in an easy manner. It comes with connectors for common Microsoft products like SharePoint...

I’ve done quite a bit of work with the client-side People Picker in SharePoint-hosted apps lately. I find that while it is relatively easy to get set up, I found it was quite easy to break. I have found that it tended to work better in Office 365 than it does in on-premises SharePoint 2013...

Last year, I wrote a post on how to get started using Information Rights Management in Office 365 . That post covered what you need to get started as well as how to enable IRM at an individual file level. This post is a follow-up to that one and covers how to configure IRM on a document library...

If you are a developer working with the SharePoint app model and have deployed a list, you might have noticed that the list settings button is missing from the ribbon. Now, you typically probably don’t want to adjust list settings inside an app through the UI. However, it’s not uncommon that you...

Have you checked out one of the YamJams yet on the Office 365 Technical Network ? I’ve participated in the last few around new features in Office 365. I found that I have been able to learn a lot about the topic at hand directly from Microsoft product team members. On September 10th, they...

You might have heard the news that Microsoft is rolling out Delve to Office 365 starting today. I was lucky enough to get it pushed to my demo site so I wanted to share some details. When Delve is activated on your tenant, you will see a link in your suite bar. Click the link to get started. ...

When it comes to Office 365, you may not want to have some of the links enabled at the top such as Yammer, OneDrive, and Sites. Although, I don't recommend disabling them. Sometimes you just aren't ready or there is a business reason preventing you from showing those links. These...

As a partner, you have access to MicrosoftOfficeDemos.com , where you can provision a free Office 365 tenant good for 90 days. If you aren't familiar with these demo sites in SharePoint Online, they come packed with demo content to demonstrate various Intranet scenarios. All you need...

I have an upcoming talk at TechEd 2014 and part of it will be spent showing you how you can manage users with PowerShell in SharePoint Online. I thought, I would give a little preview and show you some of the ways you can manage users. If you are using Office 365, this post will get you started...

In case you missed it last week, be sure and check out my guest post on the Hey, Scripting Guy blog . There, I show you how to create sites, get sites, and delete sites from SharePoint Online using PowerShell and CSOM. SharePoint Online Management Shell doesn't have this functionality...